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Blue Butterfly
By Elizabeth Stansberry
Blue, butterfly, crush,
with unmovable arms,
she tries to fly above
She is always stuck on
the ground.
She \s a crooked angel
with the sweet mischievous smile.
She wants to be invisible.
She is too powerful,
too vulnerable,
too beautiful to remain invisible.
Her mind is an ancient antique.
She is brilliant and magical
and completely fucked up and broken.
She clenches her jaw
and stares at the world
with both eyes open.
She is the one with dirty hair
and a sad face
The one you never look at
when you cross the street to get your coffee
She has a heart that shines
like a pink diamond.
What Brought Him
By David Mair
A blue gaze,
that could tear your heart apart.
What brought him to end it
Thought of having it all
Top the world was he
*
Even to the far reach of each tree knew he
Mourning after, Morning after, Mourning,
Waking to the smell of every cry
Faking to want to help why?
Flushed with power
Hushed by the hour
Living in the cobblestone grave of his own
Bombs of despair blew
Couldn’t find the time to meet his mind
He knew the dagger of love beseech the power
Simply forgot to measure
For it was always right
in front of him
She is the rising phoenix
eyes and eyebrows etched in ash
she is underestimated, tossed around,
beaten down, worn out and fed up.
In mere minutes
she has scars
a wired jaw,
a neck pieced together
with nuts and bolts.
She will stumble, trip and fall,
then walk on with her head held high.
She is composed
of beauty and light
and proves this daily.
She has wisdom,
and black memories.
She doesn’t have a mother,
she doesn’t have a father.
She is a real woman,
She doesn’t need much to survive,
a blue notebook,
a flowered backpack,
a genuine smile,
She has a blanket and courage
to keep her warm at night.
She never had a chance.
Her days have all been numbered
and her life has been built on
random miracles and a thin veil of hope.
she may not have a home
but she has a name
she has a purpose
she has dreams
and you ought to get to know her
But she’s a real woman
she doesn’t need much
to survive and she can push
her worldly desires aside.
because she is the best thing
that will ever happen to you.
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By Cole Merkel
Crossword
Across
I. Lasso material
5. Meteorologist’s line
I I . Additionally
14. Make, as money
15. Steamed dish (wrapped in a
cornhusk)
16. Nail holder
17. Questionable
19. Mandela’s org.
20. Mourn
21. Not so tough
23. “Four Quartets” poet
26. Learned
28. Tree death caused by
Ceratocystis ulmi
32. A type of curry
33. Born French female
34. Gusto
35. Winter log
37. Hors d’oeuvres
39. Nervous twitches
43. Entrepreneur’s deg.
45. Victorian, for one
46. Morse bit
47. “Mad as a hatter”
53. Retaliator
54. Wheel turners
55. _____ Blair, of “The Exorcist’
56. Reproducing asexually
60. Boy
61. Possessed as 55 across
66. Neighbor of Ida.
67. Some oil barons
68. Ascent
69. Lambda, upside down
70. Belonging to the third from
the sun
71. “Bill & __ Excellent
Adventure”
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Sudoku
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Down
1. Boehner or Pelosi, abbr.
2. Crew tool
3. Quid___quo
4. As a whole
5. Big-ticket___
6. Identical
7. Gulf sultanate
8. Swung
9. Sports lllustrated’s 1974
Sportsman of the Year
10. Emily Dickinson, for one
11. Loss of muscle coordination
12. Nine instrument compilation
13. Formal order
18. Strip of wood
22. Expert
23. Whirlpool
24. Molokai meal
25. “___be a cold day in h e ll...
27. Carpentry tool
29. Sheathe
30. Meadow
31. Taxi ticker
36. Edit
38. Before, of yore
40. False god
41. Four six-packs
42. Tom Jones’s “___a Lady”
44. Sugar cane residue
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Revere
It’s for the birds
Buyer
Oregon’s deepest lake
Not of the cloth
Old time work wagon
Trot or canter
Pharaoh’s symbol
Overlook
“Eureka!”
Stretch out
Kesey’s drug of choice
“Absolutely!”
The objective of Sudoku is to fill all the blank squares with the
correct numbers, from 1 to 9. Every row, column and square must
include all digits, 1 through 9, in any order.
Office Cat Rooty says
thank you to all our
volunteers who work so
hard to keep us moving
forward. You’re the best!
Thank you!